Pancho Villa 100: Mexico exhibit

The history of the world is written by the peoples. Through their struggles, they turn slogans, demands and aspirations into the hallmarks of our collective processes. In this context, the Mexican Revolution, as the first social revolution of the 20th century, is one of the central events from our regional memory. For more than a century, it has reverberated in the struggles for bread, land and freedom.

The Mexican Revolution had key characters such as Emiliano Zapata, Ricardo Flores Magón and Francisco “Pancho” Villa. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the assassination of the latter. In a joint Utopix and Tiempos Modernos initiative, we propose a Graphic Challenge so that artists, designers and illustrators join us to create images to recreate the most relevant historical episodes of Pancho Villa and his Northern Division. With this challenge, we wish to add to the collective construction of popular memories and common struggles, so as to rescue the political, radical and grassroots nature of a revolutionary character that has been demonized by official historiography.